The Minimalist Program

The Minimalist Program
Title The Minimalist Program PDF eBook
Author Fahad Rashed Al-Mutairi
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 241
Release 2014-10-16
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1107041341

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This evaluation of Chomsky's work from the perspectives of linguistics, evolution of language, history of physics, and philosophy of mind is interdisciplinary. It encourages linguists to reflect on the foundations of their discipline, and invites non-linguists to appreciate the complexity of human language and its place in the world.

Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program

Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program
Title Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program PDF eBook
Author Juan Uriagereka
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 360
Release 2012
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199593523

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In this book Juan Uriagereka explores important consequences of the multiple spell-out hypothesis and of the linked notion of cyclicity. He combines the latest thinking in linguistics with perspectives drawn from physics, biology, and animal behaviour.

Agree to Agree

Agree to Agree
Title Agree to Agree PDF eBook
Author Peter W. Smith
Publisher Language Science Press
Pages 482
Release 2020
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3961102147

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Agreement is a pervasive phenomenon across natural languages. Depending on one’s definition of what constitutes agreement, it is either found in virtually every natural language that we know of, or it is at least found in a great many. Either way, it seems to be a core part of the system that underpins our syntactic knowledge. Since the introduction of the operation of Agree in Chomsky (2000), agreement phenomena and the mechanism that underlies agreement have garnered a lot of attention in the Minimalist literature and have received different theoretical treatments at different stages. Since then, many different phenomena involving dependencies between elements in syntax, including movement or not, have been accounted for using Agree. The mechanism of Agree thus provides a powerful tool to model dependencies between syntactic elements far beyond φ-feature agreement. The articles collected in this volume further explore these topics and contribute to the ongoing debates surrounding agreement. The authors gathered in this book are internationally reknown experts in the field of Agreement.

The Minimalist Program

The Minimalist Program
Title The Minimalist Program PDF eBook
Author Noam Chomsky
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 436
Release 1995-09-28
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780262531283

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The Minimalist Program consists of four recent essays that attempt to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. In these essays the minimalist approach to linguistic theory is formulated and progressively developed. Building on the theory of principles and parameters and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and representation, the minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with derivations driven by morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of languages is also restricted. Within this theoretical framework, linguistic expressions are generated by optimally efficient derivations that must satisfy the conditions that hold on interface levels, the only levels of linguistic representation. The interface levels provide instructions to two types of performance systems, articulatory-perceptual and conceptual-intentional. All syntactic conditions, then, express properties of these interface levels, reflecting the interpretive requirements of language and keeping to very restricted conceptual resources. The Essays Principles and Parameters Theory Some Notes on Economy of Derivation and Representation A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory Categories and Transformations in a Minimalist Framework

Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program

Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program
Title Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program PDF eBook
Author Gert Webelhuth
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Pages 496
Release 1995-05-03
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780631180616

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This volume provides an authoritative overview of Government and Binding Theory, and -- in crucial new papers by Noam Chomsky and Alec Marantz -- of the subsequent development of the Minimalist Program.

A Theory of Syntax

A Theory of Syntax
Title A Theory of Syntax PDF eBook
Author Norbert Hornstein
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 205
Release 2009
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0521449707

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Discusses a topical set of issues in syntactic theory, including a number of original proposals at the cutting edge of research in this area. The book provides a theory of the basic grammatical operations and suggests that there is only one that is distinctive to language.

Minimal Ideas

Minimal Ideas
Title Minimal Ideas PDF eBook
Author Werner Abraham
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 377
Release 1996-08-09
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027282390

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The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomsky’s MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory”. The articles seek to develop further some key idea in the Minimalist Program, sometimes in ways deviating from the course taken by Chomsky. The articles are preceded by a 40 page introduction into the minimalist framework. The introduction pays special attention to the question how the minimalist framework developed out of the Principles and Parameters (Government and Binding) framework. The introduction serves as a guide through the entire volume, presenting the issues to be discussed in the articles in detail, and offering a thematic overview over the volume as a whole. Most of the articles in this volume are concerned with issues raised in Chomsky’s first two minimalist papers, namely “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory” (1993, first distributed in 1992) and “Bare Phrase Structure” (1995a, first distributed 1994). In acknowledgment of this, each article starts out with a quote from Chomsky (1993, 1995a). This quote also serves to highlight the particular grammatical or theoretical issue that is primarily discussed in the relevant article. Several articles relate issues raised in Chomsky’s first two minimalist papers to the basic ideas in Kayne’s book, The Antisymmetry of Syntax (1994, distributed in part in manuscript form in 1993). In many respects, therefore, these articles develop alternatives to ideas proposed in chapter 4, “Categories and Transformations,” of Chomsky’s most recent book, The Minimalist Program (1995b). Some of the articles contain references to chapter 4, and some comments on similarities and differences between ideas developed in these papers and in chapter 4 of Chomsky 1995b can also be found in the Introduction to this volume.